Still need to revive a old HP Pavilion dv1000 that I thrifted...
I thrifted a HP Pavilion dv1000 about a year ago. I had to get a $11 dollar charger for it, but it was worth it: it had Windows 7 Ultimate (activated) on it.
Had to use some recovery thjngs to get into the admin accounts.
I set a power on password for it that it forgot. Currently trying to use Dogbert's tools to get back in.
I'm planning (since the computer's HDD port no longer works, and it's missing the optical drive) to get a $15 dollar Intel 80GB SATA SSD that I found on eBay and a Opticaddy, and I'm gonna put a .iso on the SSD to install a lightweight distro on it since it has a old Intel Centrino, old Intel HD Graphics (that may be failing), and 1GB of ram (half of which I accidentally killed because of static electricity, and now it ha…